I don't think this makes him look cool, or heroic. It makes him look like a dumb ass. He was out for the start of the game, his first NFL game that he was supposed to start, for being an idiot.

This is guy reminds me of Kyle Turley. All crazy, and a bad mo fo, then when his career ends he's gonna come back to suck on the NFL's teet because of the injuries he received for playing like he does.

being a slow, white power RB doesnt make you a fullback. he was average as a blocker.

Alstott was not slow. He was a fantastic athlete who was asked to bulk up. He just had the all too common misfortune of being envisioned as fullback, no matter how impressive his resume' as a runner.

"Though Alstott was a star at Joliet Catholic High and was pursued by various Big Ten schools, only Purdue recruited him with the promise of making him a feature back. He became the first Boilermaker to earn team MVP honors three times. At the 1996 combine Alstott wowed NFL scouts by running a 4.66 40-yard dash. Yet when the Bucs drafted him in the second round, with the 35th pick, they envisioned him as a pure fullback and asked him to concentrate on a skill with which he was unfamiliar: blocking. Midway through training camp before Alstott's rookie season, first-year coach Tony Dungy was forced to reevaluate. 'We began to think, Maybe we've got a little bit more than a blocker,' Dungy recalls."

Alstott was not slow. He was a fantastic athlete who was asked to bulk up. He just had the all too common misfortune of being envisioned as fullback, no matter how impressive his resume' as a runner.

"Though Alstott was a star at Joliet Catholic High and was pursued by various Big Ten schools, only Purdue recruited him with the promise of making him a feature back. He became the first Boilermaker to earn team MVP honors three times. At the 1996 combine Alstott wowed NFL scouts by running a 4.66 40-yard dash. Yet when the Bucs drafted him in the second round, with the 35th pick, they envisioned him as a pure fullback and asked him to concentrate on a skill with which he was unfamiliar: blocking. Midway through training camp before Alstott's rookie season, first-year coach Tony Dungy was forced to reevaluate. 'We began to think, Maybe we've got a little bit more than a blocker,' Dungy recalls."

This is an odd quote because if he didn't do much blocking at Purdue then it doesn't make much sense for Dungy to have assumed he was naturally a blocker; even if Dungy had it set in his mind that Alstott was a FB, which he obviously did, he probably should have been talking about developing his blocking skills instead of assuming that's all he was.